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8/19/2011 11:17AM

Shareholders Fret Over Hewlett-Packard's Future

Hewlett-Packard's business and management moves can't seem to please its shareholders, MarketWatch's Dan Gallagher reports on the Markets Hub. Despite steps to try to streamline its business, shares were pushed lower a day after reporting it was spinning off its personal computer business. (Photo: AP Photo.)

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... I ... we continue the conversation about each P as we've seen this kind of the lanyard on the doubts there still was a laggard on the Dapper de think ... anybody else getting any worse Dan Gallagher for MarketWatch and Sanford's the Haoyu Dam ... the retiree to ... get that so we've been talking about each P and how it is leading the declines in the market in the absence of any other news so what do you think out of the major pieces of news we saw at HP last night what are the ones that are concerning investors so much that they are ... bailing out troops ... well you know it ever liquor and you know they're going to get there for a market that would ensure they've ever done ... note that all we've got some were some pressure on the shares to the acquiring company had the unusual but the degree to the worst of the day ... of the New World Investor which turned sure that ... nobody that there's a lot of worry about how the GOP's the wind ... that was dealt with it you know it I love that they fired CEO ... there are undergoing another me too reorganization of what ... you make that want to get out of ... it spells up a bit BarCap that what we did ... now if you take ... the lead single aisle ... there is going to make people though is not how it is helping to prepare ... still I would think this will be good news with it ... this is the lowest margin of consumer PC business ... they are apparently getting get out of business ... they haven't had much luck in tablets to stop doing that they haven't had much luck in phones and stop making phone hardware ... I and II freelance now ... and this is the kind of thing investors wanted to see everything so why are we seeing this kind of a whale with a price pages to buy this business you know ... it are not really sure that all investors wanted to get out of it to the Russian Arctic deal with it to you got that going into the top of the talk about for a while ... if it costs about ... one particular group or that or about the term about how the connect is that she noted that actually come up for sale sign on to do that ... which indicated that they don't have lot of people eating Gilbert George quietly ... white divide ... so ... the question of how much how you build it or where they can sell it or have ... been offered ... soothing shoulders that they get ... up and then out ... there who is there a matter of what to look like after this is that ... um one advantage to the PC business to try to get to a very strong growth in all the corporations they fell into the top shelf curator showed what he was that they wouldn't affect the ability ... of get her a lot of questions out there that he could be a part of ... the ... three points and that HP has said before including displaying ... that ... PCs are basically core to their business ... that helps them get a foot in the door with business customers that spend a lot of money and that is the future of HP ... so what Howard explaining this have about face and ... here are Breyer said that they feel what the hell did not work you know focus on their business ... an on call yesterday I Leo Parker talked about that because ... PPP that would actually be better off or don't try to be in order to make a huge Corporation are ... going in or differed correction ... you are making something ... that's hard to say ... um but you know what would it ... would've been through or should go wandering here is that ... you know how that goes all I'm here to stay in the way things have happened so far with not much they look like the company ... higher ... yielding contender for the Coke or stop lot of talk heart to ... pray ... OK well that's very depressing ... thanks and I appreciate Israel earliest efforts to thanks for joining us Dan Gallagher from MarketWatch thanks so much